English Dramatist Quotes
435 English Dramatist quotes:
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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"Nothing can come of nothing."
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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
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"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
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"Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."
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"Listen to many, speak to a few."
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"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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"It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
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"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."
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"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players."
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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
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